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CONNECTICUT TEACHERS' 

RETIREMENT SYSTEM 

1921 



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TEACHERS' RETIREMENT BOARD 

CHARI.KS L. AMES, 

Term expires July 1, 1923 

HAROLD E. CHITTENDEN 

Term expires July 7, 1925 

BURTON MANSFIEED, Cliairmaji 
In sitra n ce Co m m iss ion er 

ALBERT B. MEREDITH 

Commissioner of Education 

EVERETT J. STURGES 

BaJiJz Co7nmissioner 

EDWARD S. BOYD 

Secretary 

DOROTHY M. SHANEEY 
Assistant Secretary 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

NOVIfllBtt 



INDEX 



Annuities 

amount .... Sec 5 
definitions . . . Sec 1 
exemption from attach- 
ment .... Sec 7 
not assignable . . Sec 7 
payable, when . . Sec 5 

Appropriations . . . Sec 4 

Assessments 

definition . . . Sec 1 

Bank Commissioner 

member of the board . Sec 3 

Death of member 

payments on . . . Sec 6 

Definitions .... Sec 1 

Disability, retirement . Sec 5 

Exemptions 

certain towns and cities . Sec 11 

reimbursement . . Sec 11 

Funds .... Sec 4 

care and custod}' . . Sec 9 

exemption from taxation Sec 7 

pension reserve . . Sec 10 

Insurance Commissioner 

member of the board . Sec 3 

Interest on assessments of , 

members, credited when Sec 1 

to be paid when . . Sec 4 

New London 

special legislation . . Sec 14 

Payments by members 

annual .... Sec 4 
bv members joining after 

'September, 1917 . . Sec 2 

cease when . . . Sec 4 
deductions from salary 

how made and paid . Sec 8 
interest on, members to 

receive when Sections 4 & 6 

Pensions 

amount .... Sec 5 

definition . . . Sec 1 

exempt from attachment Sec 7 

not assignable . . Sec 7 

payable when . . Sec 5 
teachers' retired prior to 

June 30, 1917 . . vSec 2 

Public School 

definition . . . vSec 1 

Reinstatement of teacher . Sec 6 

Retirement Association 

how constituted . . Sec 2 
to elect certain members 

of the board . . Sec 3 



Sec 
Sec 

Sec 
Sec 

Sec 
Sec 



Sec 11 

Sec 6 
Sec 8 
vSec 9 

Sec 2 



Retirement Board 

duties . . . . Sec 3 

deduction from salaries 

to be paid to . . Sec 8 

determination of annui- 
ties and pension . Sec 5 

employees' salaries . Sec 3 

employment of teacher 
after retirement age, 
consent to . . Sec 5 

estimate of expenses . Sec 4 

expenses to receive . Sec 3 

mortality tables to be 
adopted by 

officers 

secretary, bond and sal- 
ar}' .... 

report of state treasurer 

report to Governor . 

to account for money 

reimbursement of exempt- 
ed towns or cities 

reinstatement of member 
withdrawing 

reports of local oflEicers to 

reports by treasurer to 

retired teachers permitted 
to join association 

retirement of teachers, to 

approve, when 
Retirement of teacher 
Retirement System 

definition 
School officials, duties of . 
School officials, penalty for 
Secondary Schools 

may be classed as "pub- 
lic schools" 
Secretary of Retirement 
Board 

employment and bond 
State Institutions 

trustees to apply for 
benefits of retirement 
system . . . Sec 12 

State Board of Education 

secretary, a member of 
board .... 
Teacher 

definition 

retired prior to June 30 
1917 to receive pension 
when .... 

salary exempt from at- 
tachment 

withdrawal from mem- 
bership, payment, rein- 
statement . . . Sec 6 



Sec 
Sec 


5 
5 


Sec 
vSec 
Sec 


1 
8 
9 


Sec 


13 


Sec 


3 



Sec 


3 


Sec 


1 


Sec 


2 


vSec 


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CONNECTICUT TEACHERS' RETIREMENT 
SYSTEM 

Chapter 57, General Statutes 1918 
Chapters 61, 83, 261, 270 and 318, Public Acts 1919 
Chapter 358, Public Acts 1921 

Definitions 

Section 1 The following: words and phrases as used, unless ossec 1015 
a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have 
the following meanings : "Retirement system" shall mean the 
arrangement provided in this act for payment of annuities and 
pensions to teachers; "annuities" shall mean payments for life 
derived from contributions from teachers; "pensions" shall 
mean payments for life derived from contributions from the 
state; "teacher" shall mean any teacher, principal, supervisor 
or superintendent engaged in the service of the public schools ; 
"public school" shall mean any day school conducted within 
this state under the orders and superintendence of a duly elected 
school committee or board of education, includingthe state board 
of education; "regular interest" shall mean interest, at the rate 
determined by the retirement board, and shall be substantially 
that which is earned by the funds of the retirement association 
compounded annually on the last day of December of each year ; 
"retirement board" shall mean the teachers' retirement board, 
as provided for in section four; "retirement association" shall 
mean the teachers' retirement association, as provided for in 
section three; "expense fund" shall mean the fund provided 
for in paragraph numbered one in section four ; "annuity fund" 
shall mean the fund provided for in paragraph numbered two in 
section four ; "pension fund" shall mean the fund provided for 
in paragraph numbered three in section four; "school year" 
shall mean the twelve months from and including the first day of 
July of any year to and including the thirtieth day of June next 
succeeding; "assessments" shall mean the annual payments to 
the annuity fund by members of the association. 

MembeRvSHIp • 

Sec 2 A teachers' retirement association shall be organized g s see 1016 
among the teachers in the public schools as follows: AH i9i9Chap 270 
teachers, except as hereinafter provided, who enter the service 
of the public schools for the first time on or after July 1, 1917, 
shall become thereby members of the association. Any teacher, 
who shall have entered the service of the public schools before 
June 30, 1917, may at any time on or before September 30, 1917, 
upon application in writing to the secretary of the retirement 
association, become a member of the association. Any such 



teacher failing to do so may thereafter become a member of the 
retirement association by paying an amount equal to the total 
assessments, with regular interest thereon, that he would have 
paid if he had joined the retirement association on September 
30, 1917. Any teacher who shall have attained the age of sixty- 
five years and shall have taught at least forty years in the public 
schools, twenty-five of which shall have been in this state, and 
who, prior to June 30, 1917, shall have retired from active teach- 
ing because of physical incapacity for further service, may, at 
the discretion of the retirement board, become a member of the 
retirement association. Such retired teachers shall thereupon be 
entitled to receive an annual pension so long as he shall live, at 
the rate to which he would be entitled had he become a member 
of said association as an active teacher on September 30, 1917, 
provided no pension paid such retired teacher shall amount to 
less than three hundred nor more than five hundred dollars per 
year. 

Managkmknt 

G s Sec 1017 3;e^c 3 The management of the retirement system is vested 
in the teachers' retirement board which shall consist of five mem- 
bers. The insurance commissioner for the state, the bank com- 
missioner for the state and the secretary of the state board of 
education shall be members of this board. Two persons from 
the teaching force of the state, one to serve until July 1, 1919, 
and one to serve until July 1, 1921, shall be members of this 
board. On or before June 15, 1919, and biennially thereafter, 
the members of the retirement association shall elect from their 
number, in a manner to be prescribed by the retirement board, 
one person to serve upon the retirement board for a term of four 
years beginning July first, following his election. If a vacancy 
occur in the positions filled by members of the retirement associa- 
tion, the retirement board shall elect a member of the retirement 
association to fill the unexpired term. The members of the re- 
tirement board shall serve without compensation, but they shall 
be reimbursed from the expense fund of the retirement associa- 
tion for any expenditures or loss of salary or wages which they 
may incur through service on this board. All claims for re- 
imbursement on this account shall be subject to the approval of 
the board of control. The retirement board shall have power to 
make by-laws and regulations not inconsistent with the provi- 
sions of this act ; and to employ a secretary, who shall give a 
surety bond in such amount as the board shall approve, and 
clerical and other assistance as may be necessary. The salaries 
shall be paid by the board with the approval of the board of con- 
trol. The retirement board shall provide for the payment of 
retirement allowances and such other expenditures as are re- 
quired by the provisions of this chapter. The retirement board 



shall adopt for the retirement system one or more mortality 
tables, and may, from time to time, modify such tables or pre- 
scribe other tables to represent more accurately the expense of 
the retirement system. The retirement board shall perform such 
other functions as are required for the execution of the pro- 
visions of this chapter. 

Funds 

Sec 4 The funds of the retirement system shall consist of an g s see lois 
expense fund, an annuity fund and a pension fund, (l) The 
expense fund shall consist of such amounts as shall be appro- 
priated by the general assembly from year to year on estimates 
submitted by the retirement board to defray the expenses of the 
administration of this chapter, exclusive of the payment of retire- 
ment allowances. (2) The annuity fund shall consist of assess- 
ments paid by members of the retirement association, and in- 
terest derived from investments of the annuity fund. Each 
member of the retirement association shall pay into the annuity 
fund in the manner provided in section eight, five per centum of 
his annual salary ; provided when the total sum of asssessments 
on the salary of any member at the rate of five per centum would 
amount to more than one hundred dollars or less than twenty- 
five dollars for any school year such member, shall in lieu of 
assessments at the regular rate, be assessed one hundred dollars 
a year or twenty five dollars a year, as the case may be, payable 
in equal installments to be assessed for the number of months 
during which the schools of the community in which such mem- 
ber is employed are commonly in session. Any member of the 
retirement association who shall for thirty years have paid reg- 
ular assessments to the annuity fund as herein provided, shall 
be exempt from further assessments ; but such member may there- 
after if he so elects, continue to pay his assessments to the fund. 
No member so electing shall pay further assessments after the 
total sum of assessments paid by him shall at any time have 
amounted with regular interest, to a sum sufficient to purchase 
an annuity of five hundred dollars at age sixty ; and interest 
thereafter accumulating shall be paid to the member at the time 
of his retiremant. (3^ The pension fund shall consist of such 
amounts as shall be appropriated by the general assembly from 
time to time on estimates submitted by the retirement board, for 
the purpose of paying the pensions provided for in this chapter. 

QUAIJFICATIONS FOR RETIREMIvNT 

Sec 5 Any member of the retirement association may re- qs see 1019 
tire from service in the public schools on attaining the age of ^^^^.^^""^"^ 
sixty years or on the completion of thirty-five years of service, iScLp 25s 
not less than twenty of which shall have been in the |)ublic schools 
of this state not less than five of which shall immediately precede 



retirement. Any member of the retirement association whose 
service in the public schools of the state has covered a period of 
ten or more years, the last five of which are consecutive, and 
who, before attaining the age of sixty years, becomes permanently 
incapable of rendering satisfactory service as a teacher by rea- 
son of physical or mental disability as shown by examination, 
may, with the approval of the retirement board, be retired by the 
employing board of education, town school committee or board 
of school visitors ; and any teacher so retired shall receive for 
retirement allowance; (l) an annuity as computed under the 
tables adopted by the retirement board, and (2) a pension equal 
to one-thirtieth of the pension such a teacher would have received 
if retired at the age of sixty years, for each completed year of ser- 
vice ; provided continuance of disability of such teacher shall be 
indicated by examination annually for five years and at such sub- 
sequent times as the retirement board may require by a physician 
selected by the retirement board, unless exempted from such ex- 
amination by said board. If the retirement board shall at any time 
find that such disability no longer exists, the retirement allowance 
as provided in this section shall cease. Upon refusal of a teach- 
er to submit to examination, the retirement board shall discon- 
tinuepaymentof the retirement allowance authorizedby the provis- 
ions of this section. Any member of the retirement association on 
attaining the age of seventy years, shall be retired from service in 
the publiq schools ; provided, if the employing committee shall so 
request in writing, the retirement board may permit the employ- 
ment of such member beyond the age of seventy years, and on 
the retirement of such member he shall receive from the state 
the pension to which he would have been entitled at the age of 
seventy. A member of the retirement association after his re- 
tirement under the provisions of this section shall be entitled 
to receive from the annuity fund, as he shall elect at the time of 
his retirement, on the basis of tables adopted by the retirement 
board ; an annuity, payable in monthly payments, to which the 
sum of his assessments under the provisions of section 4, with 
regular interest thereon shall entitle him ; or an annuity of less 
amount as determinded by the retirement board for the annuitants 
electing such option payable in monthly payments, with the pro- 
vision that on the death of the annuitant, the annuity shall be con- 
tinued to and throughout the life of such person as he shall 
nominate by written designation duly ackowledged and filed 
with the retirement board at the time of his retirement. The 
retirement board may offer benefits of equal value with the bene- 
fits herein provided and the contributor retiring may accept the 
benefits herein provided or one of said alternate benefits in lieu 
thereof. Any person receiving payments of an annuity as pro- 
vided in this section shall receive with each monthly payment of 
his annuity an equal amount to be paid from the pension fund 



as directed b\^ the retirement board. Any teacher who shall 
have become a member of the retirement association under the 
provisions of section 2, and who shall have served fifteen years 
or more in the public schools of the state, not less than five of 
which shall immediately precede retirement, shall, on retiring 
or being retired as provided in this section, be entitled to receive 
a retirement allowance as follows : Such annuity and pension 
as may be due under the provisions of this section ; an additional 
pension to such an amount that the sum of this addititional pen- 
sion and the pension hereinbefore provided in this section 
shall equal the pension to which he would have been entitled 
under the provisions of this act if he had paid thirty assess- 
ments on his average yearly wage for the five years preced- 
ing his retirement, with interest thereon at three per centum 
compounded annually ; provided if his term of service in the 
state shall have been over thirt}^ years, the thirty assessments 
shall be reckoned as having begun at the time of his entering 
service and as drawing interest at three per centum compounded 
annually until the time of his retirement ; and further provided, 
if the sum of such additional pension, with the annuity and 
pension provided for by this section, is less than three hundred 
dollars in an3^ one year, an additional sum sufficient to make an 
annual retirement allowance of three hundred dollars shall 
be paid from the pension fund. If at any time it is impossible 
or impracticable to consult the original records as to wages 
received by a member during any period, the retirement board 
shall determine the pension to be paid under the provisions of 
this section in accordance with such evidence as it may be able 
to obtain. 

Withdrawal and Refunds 

Sec 6 Any member of the retirement association withdraw- 
ing from service in the public schools before becoming eligible 
to retirement shall be entitled to receive from the annuity fund 
all amounts, contributed as assessments, with regular interest 
thereon, in one sum or in four quarterly payments as the retire- 
ment board may elect. If such withdrawal shall take place after 
ten annual assessments have been paid, the member so with- 
drawing may, if he shall so elect, receive the amount due him in 
the form of such annuity for life, based on the contributions of 
such member, with regular interest thereon as may be deter- 
mined by the retirement board in accordance with its annuity 
tables. If a member of the association withdrawing and receiv- 
ing payments in accordance with the provisions of this section 
shall die before the amount of such payments equals the amount 
of his contributions to the annuity fund, with regular interest, 
the difference between the amount of such payments and the 
amount of his contributions, with regular interest, shall be ])aid 



G S vSec 1020 



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to the executor or administrator of his estate ; if no demand shall 
be made on the retirement board within six months next follow- 
ing the death of such member for the payment of the sums due 
under this section, such sums may be paid to such person or 
persons as are entitled to the estate, and such payments shall 
be a bar to recovery by any other persons. Any member of the 
retirement association who shall have withdrawn from service 
in the public schools, shall, on being re-employed in the public 
schools, be reinstated in the retirement association in accordance 
with such plans for reinstatement as the retirement board shall 
adopt. If a member of the retirement association shall die be- 
fore retirement, the full amount of his contributions to the 
annuity fund, with regular interest to the day of his death, shall 
be paid to the executor or administrator of his estate ; if no de- 
mand shall be made on the retirement board within six months 
next following the death of such member for the payment of 
the sums due under this section, such sums may then be paid to 
such person or persons as are entitled to the estate, and such pay- 
ment shall be a bar to recovery by any other person. 

Funds not Assignable 

Gssec 1021 Skc 7 That portion of the salary or wages of a member de- 
ducted or to be deducted under this act, the right of a member to 
an annuity or pension and all his rights in the funds of the 
retirement system shall be exempt from taxation, and from the 
operation of any laws relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, and 
shall not be attached or taken upon execution or other process of 
any court. No assignment of any right in or to said funds shall 
be valid. The funds of the retirement system, so far as the same 
are invested in personal property, shall be exempt from taxation. 

Duties of Educational Officials 

G s Sec 1022 Shc 8 The school committee or board of education of each 
town, city or district in the state sha^, before employing in any 
teaching position any person to whom this act may apply, notify 
such person of his duties and obligations under this act as a con- 
dition of his employment. On or before October first of each 
year the school committee or board of education of each town, 
city or district shall certify to the retirement board the names 
and salaries of all teachers in its employ to whom this act shall 
apply. The school committee or board of education of each 
town, city or district in the state shall, on the first day of each 
calendar month, notify the retirement board of the employment 
of new teachers, removals, withdrawals and changes in salary of 
teachers that shall have occurred during the month preceding. 
Under the direction of the retirement board the school commit- 
tee or board of education of each town, city and district in the 
state shall furnish such other information as the board may 



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require relevant to the discharge of the duties of the board. The 
school committee or board of education of each town, cit}- and 
district in the state shall, as directed by the retirement board, 
deduct from the amount of the salary due each teacher employed 
in the public schools of such town, city or district, such amounts 
as are due as contributions to the annuity fund as prescribed in 
this chapter, shall send to the treasurer of said town, city or dis- 
trict an order for the amount of such deductions drawn in favor 
of the retirement board and shall send statement of the amounts 
deducted to the secretary of the retirement board. The school 
committee or board of education of each town, city and district 
in the state shall keep such records as the retirement board may 
require. The secretary of the state board of education shall keep 
such records and make such reports concerning teachers in its 
employ as may be required by the retirement board and shall de- 
duct monthly from salaries of such teachers the amounts due as 
contributions to the annuity fund under the provisions of this 
chapter. 

CosTODY, Care and Accounting of the Funds 

Sec 9 The treasurer of each town, city or school district in the i§2? chapels 
state shall transmit monthly to the secretary of the retirement 
board the amount deducted from teachers' salaries in such town, 
city or school district as specified in the order of the school com- 
mittee or board of education of such town, city or school district 
in accordance with the provisions of section eight. All such 
amounts due to the retirement board shall be liable to interest at 
nine per centum per annum when payment of the same is delayed 
more than thirty days after the time prescribed for payment 
thereof ; provided the minimum amount of interest of any such 
delayed payment shall be five dollars ; and the proceeds of said 
interest charge shall be used to reimburse the account of each 
teacher deprived of interest by said delay and the balance shall be 
paid into the general fund of the retirement association. The 
secretary of the state board of education shall transmit month- 
ly to the secretary of the retirement board the amount de- 
ducted from teachers' salaries under the provisions of this chapter. 
The secretary of the retirement board shall monthly pay to the 
treasurer of the state all sums collected by him under the pro- 
visions of this section. All funds of the retirement system shall 
be in custody and charge of the treasurer of the state and the 
treasurer shall invest such funds as are not required for current 
disbursements in accordance with the laws of the state govern- 
ing the investment of saving bank funds. He may, whenever 
he sells securities, deliver the securities so sold upon receiving 
the proceeds thereof, and may execute any document necessary 
to transfer the title thereto. The treasurer of the state shall 
make such payments to members of the retirement association 



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from the annuity fund and pension fund as the retirement board 
shall order to be paid in accordance with sections five and six of 
this chapter. On or before the third Wednesdaj^ in January, the 
treasurer of the state shall file with the insurance commissioner 
for the state, and with the secretary of the retirement board, a 
sworn statement exhibiting the financial condition of the retire- 
ment system on the thirty-first day of the preceding December 
and its financial transactions for the year ending at such date. 
Such statements shall be in the form prescribed by the retire- 
ment board and approved by the insurance commissioner. The 
retirement board shall submit annually to the governor a de- 
tailed statement of the membership, retirements, withdrawals, 
investments, incomes and expenditures of the retirement associa- 
tion, which statement shall be printed by the board of control. 

Pension Reserve Fund 

1919 Chap 318 S^c 10 Tlic Comptroller is directed to draw orders on the 
treasurer for the payment of such moneys as may be certified 
by the teachers' retirement board as necessary according to the 
mortality tables adopted by the board for the payment of pen- 
sions allowed to retired teachers. Such moneys shall be held in 
a reserve fund, invested and controlled in the same manner as 
the annuity fund of the retirement system and used for the pay- 
ment of pensions. 

Certain Towns Exempted and Reimbursed 

Gs Sec 1024 Sec 11 If the school committee or board of education of 
1919 Chap 61 any town or city, or any town or city having in effect at the time 
of the passage of this act, a pension system for teachers, or a 
teachers' retirement system, constituted by act of the general 
assembly, shall, on or before September 30, 1919, by written 
application filed with the retirement board, request the exemp- 
tion of such town or city from the provisions of this act, such 
town or city shall be exempted. Any town or city which has 
been exempted from the provisions of this act which shall re- 
tire a teacher with a pension annuity or allowance and the school 
committee or board of education of such town or city shall cer- 
tify under oath to the retirement board the amount of such 
pension annuity or allowance, said town or city shall be reim- 
bursed annually by the state within one month following the 
close of the current school year, to such amount as the retire- 
ment board may determine. 

State Institutions 

1919 Chap 83 Sec 12 The teachers' retirement board may, upon applica- 
tion by the board of trustees of any institution supported by the 
state at which teachers are employed, class such institution as a 
public school under the provisions of section one of the general 



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statutes. The secretar}- and treasurer of such l)oard of trustees 
shall perform the duties required by educational officials under 
the provisions of sections eight and nine. 

Incorporated Secondary Schools 

Sec 13 Any incorporated secondary school not under the i9i9 chap i7o 
orders and superintendence of a duly elected school committee 
or board of education, but located in a town not maintaining 
a high school and providing free tuition to pupils of the town in 
which it is located and which shall have been approved by the 
state board of education under the provisions of chapter 54 of 
the general statutes, ma}-, upon application of its board of trus- 
tees be considered a "p^iblic school" and included in the retire- 
ment system for teachers at the discretion of the retirement 
board, and the duties required of town officials under sections 
eight and nine shall be performed by the corresponding officers 
of said school. 

New lyONDON Public School Teachers 

Sec 14 Any teacher emplo^^ed by the city of New London i9i9 special 
in its public schools, who shall begin service after July 1, 1919, ^39^^ ^^^ """'^ 
shall become thereby a member of the teachers' retirement asso- Par a 
ciation of the state, and shall be exempt from, and entitled to 
no rights under, the provisions of the charter of said city re- 
lating to the teachers' retirement fund. 

Any teacher now in service in the public schools of the city ^^^ ^ 
of New London, may, on or before July 1, 1919, become a mem- 
ber of the state retirement association and entitled to all the rights 
and subject to all the obligations thereof, by written application 
to the secretary of said association and by paying an amount 
equal to the total assessments, with regular interest thereon, that 
he would have paid if he had been in service before June 30, 
1917, and joined said association on or before September 30, 
1917, or, if such teacher was first in service subsequent to July 
1, 1917, by paying an amount equal to the total assessments, with 
regular interest, that he would have paid if he had joined the 
state retirement association on entering the service of the public 
schools. 

Said city of New London shall continue to be entitled to re- ^'•'^^ ^ 
imbursement by the state according to the provisions of section 
eleven for all pensions, allowances or annuities paid by it to 
teachers who have been retired or may hereafter be retired under 
the provisions of the charter of said city. 

When any teacher now in service in the public schools of the I'^r ^j 
city shall elect, on or before July 1, 1919, to become a member 
of the state retirement association there shall be paid, for such 
teacher, from the teachers' retirement fund of said city to the 
fund of the state retirement association the assessments with in- 



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terest, that such teacher is required to pay upon becoming a 
member of such association, and thereupon all rights of such 
teacher to any part of said retirement fund of said city, except 
as in this act provided, and all obligations to pay any assess- 
ments thereto, shall terminate. 

Par E From said retirement fund of said city, with all accumula- 
tions thereto, including any part thereof as may have been set 
apart as a permanent fund, there shall be made, in addition to 
the payments to be made under section fourteen. Par D, hereof, 
all payments to which any teacher may be entitled, who has been 
or may be retired under the provisions of said charter ; and, also, 
there shall be paid from said fund to any teacher who shall be- 
come a member of said state association under the provisions of 
section fourteen, Par D, hereof, and shall continue as a teacher 
in the public schools of said city and who would, but for the 
failure to pa}^ assessments to said fund, become entitled to retire- 
ment under the provisions of said charter, such amounts as he or 
she would be entitled to upon retirement under said charter, less 
any amounts that he or she may receive under the state retire- 
ment system. 

Par F After this act shall come into effect the city of New London 
shall not be obliged to make any further payments to said fund, 
unless said fund shall not be sufficient to pay all obligations under 
said charter as hereby amended, in which event said city shall 
pay into said fund an amount sufficient to meet all such obliga- 
tions. Any balance of said fund remaining after all obligations 
are satisfied shall be paid into the general treasury of the city 
for school purposes. 

Admimistrativk Rui.es Adopted by the Teachers' 
Retirement Board 

1 That leave of absence not to exceed twelve calendar 
months in length, and formally granted by a school committee 
to a teacher, shall not be considered as removing him from the 
public school service ; that, such leave of absence shall not be 
considered as breaking the continuity of the period of five years 
of service immediately preceding retirement which is required by 
section six of the act, but that such absence shall not count as 
part of the said five years of service. 

2 That a substitute teacher who is on the pay-roll of any 
school board at an annual salary shall be considered as a regular 
teacher. 

3 That, if a teacher receives salaries from tw^o or more 
school boards, his annual assessment shall be based on his ag- 
gregate salary, and the monthly deductions therefrom appor- 
tioned to the several boards employing said teacher. 

4 That, when a teacher loses pay for an absence of less than 
a month, other than formal leave of absence, such teacher will be 



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required to pa\^ the assessment of that month as if on full pay. 
Note — This is not to be construed as affecting; the assessments 
of teachers entering or leaving service during the month, such 
teachers being assessed only on wages for actual teaching time. 

5 (Refer to Rule 1) That, any teacher on formal leave of 
absence ma\-, if he chooses, pay monthly assessments to the 
annuit}' fund during such leave of absence, and the period of 
time covered by assessments paid in this manner, shall be con- 
strued as constituting actual service, providing the number of 
such monthly assessments paid in continuity shall not exceed 
the number pa3''able in one school year. 

6 That, annual assessments shall be remitted to the 
board in equal instalments for the number of months of the 
school year of the town, even though the towm's payments to 
teachers are not equal. 

7 That an absence caused by enlistment or draft in the Unit- 
ed States Service be allowed for more than one year without be- 
ing considered as breaking the continuit}^ of service as a public 
school teacher. 

8 Inasmuch as a member of the Retirement Association who 
shall have withdrawn from service in the public schools is obliged 
according to law to become reinstated upon beingre-employed in 
the public school service of the state, this board is of the opin- 
ion that a teacher is illegally employed unless the above condi- 
tions are complied with and shall consider it necessary to take 
the matter up with the employing board of education if such 
teacher refuses to return assessments refunded to him in good 
faith by the Retirement Board. 



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